The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

8.62 Thomas Traherne c.1637-74
You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed
with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the
whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you.
Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you
never enjoy the world.
‘Centuries of Meditations’ Century 1, 29
The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I
thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.
‘Centuries of Meditations’ Century 3, 3
The Men! O what venerable and reverend creatures did the aged seem! Immortal Cherubims!
And young men glittering and sparkling Angels, and maids strange seraphic pieces of life and
beauty! Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that
they were born or should die; but all things abided eternally as they were in their proper places.
‘Centuries of Meditations’ Century 3, 3
The hands are a sort of feet, which serve us in our passage towards Heaven, curiously
distinguished into joints and fingers, and fit to be applied to any thing which reason can imagine
or desire.
‘Meditations on the Six Days of Creation’ (1717) vi, p. 78
Contentment is a sleepy thing
If it in death alone must die;
A quiet mind is worse than poverty,
Unless it from enjoyment spring!
That’s blessedness alone that makes a King!
‘Of Contentment’
I within did flow
With seas of life, like wine.
I nothing in this world did know,
But ’twas divine!
‘Wonder’ st. 3
8.63 Henry Duff Traill 1842-1900
Look in my face. My name is Used-to-was;
I am also called Played-out and Done-to-death,
And It-will-wash-no-more.
‘After Dilettante Concetti’ (i.e. Dante Gabriel Rossetti) st. 8.
8.64 Joseph Trapp 1679-1747
The King, observing with judicious eyes